Seeing What Qohelet Saw

Author : Douglas R. Fyfe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725252974

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Seeing What Qohelet Saw by Douglas R. Fyfe Pdf

If the content of Ecclesiastes is not hard enough on its own, the fact that there has been no consensus around the structure adds to its difficulty. With this book, there is a strong argument for a structure which draws various threads together and provides a straightforward way to read Ecclesiastes. This book pays close attention to cues in the text and demonstrates how the verb “to see” helps organize the text into panels of Qohelet’s first-person observation, which alternate with panels of his collected wisdom. This book first argues for this structure, and then shows it in practice, working carefully through the individual units to demonstrate how the structure advocated within the book aids the reader in reading Ecclesiastes.

Author : Jimyung Kim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004381063

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Reanimating Qohelet’s Contradictory Voices by Jimyung Kim Pdf

Ecclesiastes is a text filled with contradictions. In Reanimating Qohelet’s Contradictory Voices, Jimyung Kim, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s insights, offers a reading that embraces the contradictions as they stand instead of harmonizing them or explaining them away.

Author : Stuart Weeks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567693525

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Ecclesiastes 1-5 by Stuart Weeks Pdf

This new volume in the ICC on Ecclesiastes 1-5 brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this Old Testament book. Stuart Weeks incorporates new evidence available in the field, surveys the wealth of secondary literature and provides an extensive introduction to Ecclesiastes as a whole.

Author : Jennifer L. Koosed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567401113

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(Per)mutations of Qohelet by Jennifer L. Koosed Pdf

(Per)mutations of Qohelet explores the question, Who is Qohelet? Rather than peering behind or through the text to answer this question in terms of authorship, Koosed analyzes the identity that is created through the words on the page. The text is not a transparent medium connecting reader with author; instead, it is an opaque body - it has weight, substance, skin. Koosed begins with an analysis of the ways in which words construct identities and the reasons why words can affect us so profoundly, relying primarily on the work of Judith Butler and Elaine Scarry. She then explores autobiography and how the genre of autobiography - as reconfigured by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida - relates to Qohelet. These two chapters then set the framework for what follows: an analysis of the various bodily organs and sensations contained within the book of Qohelet. The body is embedded in the text through the naming of body parts (eye, hand, heart). And this same body is encoded in form, structure, and syntax, so that the text becomes a body with organs, systems, and even a life of its own. The book is a body and the book speaks of bodies. It speaks of the body's organs and senses; it concerns itself with the pleasures and pains of the body, the gendered body, the dying body. Finally, the ritual body is highlighted in the final passage of this enigmatic book.

Author : J. Daryl Charles
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781087765778

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Our Secular Vocation by J. Daryl Charles Pdf

The divide between the sacred and the secular life has dogged Christians for centuries. Even today, many Christians and church leaders still assume that the workplace is inferior to pastoring, Bible study, mission trips, and the like. This volume provides a different approach: it surveys the persistence of the sacred-secular divide in Christian history to develop a more robust theology of vocation while engaging with both the Old and New Testament. Charles offers a vision for numerous ways Christians are called to live faithfully in the so-called secular world.

Author : Antoon Schoors
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9042905891

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Etude dialectologique de l’aire manding de Côte-d’Ivoire. Fasc. 1. by Antoon Schoors Pdf

Author : Jayadvaita Swami
Publisher : The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780892134465

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Vanity Karma by Jayadvaita Swami Pdf

What is life for? What may give it meaning? Does it have any meaning at all? A sage in ancient Israel brooded over these questions. In ancient India, too, such questions drove a despairing warrior to seek answers from his divine friend Krishna. The thoughts of the sage became the wisdom book Ecclesiastes; those of Krishna, the Bhagavad-gītā. Their wisdom speaks to our deepest concerns. In Vanity Karma, wisdom meets wisdom as these two perennial classics come together, both offering us profound understanding. And a deep and authentic spiritual understanding, we may find, can infuse our lives with meaning and with joy. Vanity Karma brings you on a journey through the full text of Ecclesiastes, a journey illuminated by traditional biblical scholarship, insights from the Bhagavad-gītā, a dash of autobiography, and a steady spiritual focus.

Author : Michael V. Fox
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608994960

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A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build Up by Michael V. Fox Pdf

Pervaded as it is with pessimism, paradox, and a multitude of contradictions, Ecclesiastes has long been one of the most difficult books of the Bible to understand. As this study demonstrates, however, it is precisely these contradictions that make Ecclesiastes so meaningful and so powerfully relevant to life in the world. By looking carefully at the language and thought of Ecclesiastes, as well as at its uses of contradictions in probing the meaning of life, Fox confronts the problems that have confounded interpretation of this biblical book. He shows that by using contradiction to tear down holistic claims of meaning and purpose in the world and rebuilding meaning in a local, restricted sense instead, the author of Ecclesiastes shapes a bold, honest-and ultimately uplifting-vision of life. Based on solid scholarly insight yet readable by all, Fox's work provides some of the best commentary available on this challenging section of Scripture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1875847863

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Ecclesiastes, Or, The Preacher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Enns
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780802866493

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Ecclesiastes by Peter Enns Pdf

Seeking to bridge the existing gap between biblical studies and systematic theology, this distinctive series offers section-by-section exegesis of the Old Testament texts in close conversation with theological concerns. Written by respected scholars, the THOTC volumes aim to help pastors, teachers, and students engage in deliberately theological interpretation of Scripture.

Author : T. A. Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107088047

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The Book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) and the Path to Joyous Living by T. A. Perry Pdf

This is the first full-length study of Ecclesiastes using methods of philosophical exegesis, specifically those of the modern French philosophers Levinas and Blanchot. T. A. Perry opens up new horizons in the philosophical understanding of the Hebrew Bible, offering a series of meditations on its general spiritual outlook. Perry breaks down Ecclesiastes's motto "all is vanity" and returns "vanity" to its original concrete meaning of "breath," the breath of life. This central and forgotten teaching of Ecclesiastes leads to new areas of breath research related both to environmentalism and breath control.

Author : Craig G. Bartholomew
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441205070

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Ecclesiastes (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms) by Craig G. Bartholomew Pdf

Respected Old Testament scholar Craig Bartholomew, coauthor of the well-received Drama of Scripture, provides a careful exegetical reading of Ecclesiastes in this addition to the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series. Along with helpful translation and commentary, Ecclesiastes considers the theological implications of the text and its literary, historical, and grammatical dimensions. Footnotes deal with many of the technical matters, allowing readers of varying levels of interest and training to read and profit from the commentary and to engage the biblical text at an appropriate level. Pastors, teachers, and all serious students of the Bible will find here an accessible commentary that will serve as an excellent resource for their study.

Author : Stuart Weeks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567666550

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Ecclesiastes 5-12 by Stuart Weeks Pdf

This volume completes Stuart Weeks' commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes, also known as Qoheleth. Weeks draws together all the relevant tools for understanding this complex wisdom book in the Old Testament. As is the hallmark of the ICC no stone is left unturned as Weeks considers the full range of linguistic, textual, archaeological, literary and theological interpretations of the text. Week incorporates recent interpretation alongside the history of research to examine the text of Ecclesiastes 6-12 in the closest possible, offering a reading of what may have be the original writer's linguistic and theological intent. The volume is a companion to Weeks' previous commentary on chapters 1-5 of Ecclesiastes, which also contains his exhaustive bibliography of works relevant to the study of the text.

Author : Karel van der Toorn
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161564703

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God in Context by Karel van der Toorn Pdf

In this work, Karel van der Toorn explores the social setting, the intellectual milieu, and the historical context of the beliefs and practices reflected in the Hebrew Bible. While fully recognizing the unique character of early Israelite religion, the author challenges the notion of its incomparability. Beliefs are anchored in culture. Rituals have societal significance. God has a history. By shifting the focus to the context, the essays gathered here yield a deeper understanding of Israelite religion and the origins of the Bible.

Author : Duane A. Garrett
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433675577

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs by Duane A. Garrett Pdf

THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Notable features include:* commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION;* the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary;* sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original languages;* interpretation that emphasizes the theological unity of each book and of Scripture as a whole;* readable and applicable exposition.